Trattato del legno fossile minerale nuouamente scoperto : nel quale breuemente si accenna la varia & mutabil natura di detto legno, rappresentatoui con alcune figure, che mostrano il luogo doue nasce, la diuersità dell'onde che in esso si vedono, e le sue così varie e marauigliose forme (1637)
Author: Stelluti, Francesco, 1577-1653
Subject: Trees, Fossil
Publisher: In Roma : Appresso Vitale Mascardi
Possible copyright status: NOT_IN_COPYRIGHT
Language: Italian
Call number: 358062
Digitizing sponsor: Sloan Foundation
Book contributor: Research Library, The Getty Research Institute
Collection: getty; americana
Notes: No Table of Contents. Narrow margins.
Scanfactors: 3
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First 4 leaves of plates comprise 2 double-page plates, the 1st a bird's-eye view of the area of Aquasparta in Umbria, the 2nd a view of the hillside where the fossil wood was found
Woodcut of lynx on t.p. (emblem of the Lincei), tail-piece at end of text incorporating lynx in tree. Several initials
Binding: modern brown goatskin, tooled in blind & gilt. Edges sprinkled red
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| Foldoutcount: | 2 |
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